Gold Rush
  • 1. Grandma _____to her grandchildren to come inside for freshly baked cookies and milk.
A) rugged
B) abandoned
C) fares
D) beckons
  • 2. As we were hiking in the countryside, we discovered an_____old run-down farmhouse.
A) profitable
B) fares
C) abandoned
D) multicultural
  • 3. Each school year our principal assigns one month as____month, and we study about people from many parts of the world.
A) beckons
B) rugged
C) multicultural
D) profitable
  • 4. The babysitting business we started turned out to be very_____and we made lots of money.
A) profitable
B) fares
C) abandoned
D) rugged
  • 5. Airplane_____are always more expensive at busy times.
A) fares
B) multicultural
C) beckons
D) abandoned
  • 6. Pioneers traveling west had to be strong, determined, and____to survive the rigors of the trip.
A) abandoned
B) rugged
C) profitable
D) multicultural
  • 7. This nonfiction selection is most like an informational book because it_____.
A) expresses the author's opinion
B) is written in the first person
C) gives information on a particular topic
D) is a series of questions and answers
  • 8. According to this selection, many people moved to the unsettled West in the early 1800's for all the following except_____.
A) people wanted to own their own land
B) land in the East was getting expensive
C) the eastern cities were getting crowded
D) men wanted to ranch
  • 9. The "forty-niners" were prospectors during the_____.
A) Alaska gold rush
B) Klondike gold rush
C) gold fever
D) California gold rush
  • 10. The Klondike gold rush of the Yukon was_____the California gold rush.
A) fifty years before
B) a hundred years after
C) fifty years after
D) the same time as
  • 11. In the early days out west, a prospector would leave his tools on the ground of unsettled land as a way of_____.
A) being ready to work at all times
B) being careless
C) staking a claim to the land
D) having someone take them
  • 12. It is important to register a land claim because then the prospector could do all of the following with the land except____.
A) prove ownership
B) claim jump
C) buy it
D) sell it
  • 13. The gold found just below the ground's surface is______.
A) a gold nugget
B) washed gold
C) placer gold
D) buried gold
  • 14. According to the selection, new gold miners were sometimes referred to as_____.
A) gold dusters
B) grubstakes
C) gold horns
D) greenhorns
  • 15. I n this selection, a cradle is used to_____.
A) rock a baby to sleep
B) wash large amounts of gold
C) mine gold
D) break away large pieces of rock
  • 16. According to the selection, many people traveled in wagon trains out west because_____.
A) it was lonelier and people would need less food
B) they traveled in a covered wagon
C) it was safer and people could help each other along the way
D) they could eat each other's food
  • 17. Sometimes, in order for a prospector to start mining, he had to_____.
A) go to a boom town
B) stake a claim jump
C) build flumes
D) find a grubstake
  • 18. What did many of the former miners in California decide to do for work?
A) go back home
B) build large jewelry businesses
C) farm in the valley
D) make fake gold
  • 19. What is the advantage to using hydraulic mining, when mining for gold?
A) It was more fun than regular mining.
B) It didn't use any water.
C) I enables miners to get gold buried deep in rock.
D) It would cool them off.
  • 20. What does "hitting pay dirt" mean today?
A) Finding dirt that has the glitter of gold in it.
B) Discovering something useful, or profitable.
C) Getting dirty.
D) Breaking apart the gold.
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